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Portable Compound Microscope, English, Later 19th Century

Inventory Number 14591


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.14591

Subject
Microscopy
Item type
Object
Provenance
Purchased from Tesseract, 25 July 2014.
Primary inscriptions
Printed label inside lid: "IMPROVED | PORTABLE COMPOUND MICROSCOPE, | For the Parlour, Garden, or Sea-Side." Stamped inside lid of accompanying box of slides "PRIMAVESI BROS | OPTICIANS, | BOURNEMOUTH".
Physical material
Card
Wood
copper alloy
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 21mm Width: 63mm Depth: 30mm Weight: 43g
Inventory No
14591
Accession Number
2014-4/4

Description

Card box containing copper alloy microscope tube with mahogany handle, and accompanying card box of 12 prepared slides with French and English manuscript captions, and one glass slide.